Center for Countering Digital Hate
@counterhate.com
International organization disrupting the production and spread of hate & misinformation. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Press: [email protected]
🧡🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at CCDH.
We’re sending gratitude to our community, partners, policymakers, and everyone else who is standing up against online hate and working to build a safer internet for all.
We can’t do it without you! Wishing you a happy and restorative holiday.
We’re sending gratitude to our community, partners, policymakers, and everyone else who is standing up against online hate and working to build a safer internet for all.
We can’t do it without you! Wishing you a happy and restorative holiday.
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🧡🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at CCDH.
We’re sending gratitude to our community, partners, policymakers, and everyone else who is standing up against online hate and working to build a safer internet for all.
We can’t do it without you! Wishing you a happy and restorative holiday.
We’re sending gratitude to our community, partners, policymakers, and everyone else who is standing up against online hate and working to build a safer internet for all.
We can’t do it without you! Wishing you a happy and restorative holiday.
Our research shows that online misogyny is growing fast & young women are paying the price.
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & Girls, help CCDH push for safer spaces for digital spaces – free of online misogyny.
Donate today 👇
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & Girls, help CCDH push for safer spaces for digital spaces – free of online misogyny.
Donate today 👇
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Our research shows that online misogyny is growing fast & young women are paying the price.
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & Girls, help CCDH push for safer spaces for digital spaces – free of online misogyny.
Donate today 👇
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & Girls, help CCDH push for safer spaces for digital spaces – free of online misogyny.
Donate today 👇
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
“After the heinous attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue, it is even more outrageous that extremist content, including posts that glorify Nazis and spread Holocaust denial, is promoted and monetised by algorithms."
Our CEO, @imranahmed.bsky.social in @theipaper.com on our new findings ⤵️
Our CEO, @imranahmed.bsky.social in @theipaper.com on our new findings ⤵️
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“After the heinous attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue, it is even more outrageous that extremist content, including posts that glorify Nazis and spread Holocaust denial, is promoted and monetised by algorithms."
Our CEO, @imranahmed.bsky.social in @theipaper.com on our new findings ⤵️
Our CEO, @imranahmed.bsky.social in @theipaper.com on our new findings ⤵️
Online hate can lead to offline violence. Hate-for-profit must be urgently stopped:
☑️ Meta must establish & enforce policies that curb harmful content
☑️ E-commerce platforms must enforce their own rules
☑️ Policymakers must demand transparency & accountability from Meta & e-commerce companies
☑️ Meta must establish & enforce policies that curb harmful content
☑️ E-commerce platforms must enforce their own rules
☑️ Policymakers must demand transparency & accountability from Meta & e-commerce companies
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Online hate can lead to offline violence. Hate-for-profit must be urgently stopped:
☑️ Meta must establish & enforce policies that curb harmful content
☑️ E-commerce platforms must enforce their own rules
☑️ Policymakers must demand transparency & accountability from Meta & e-commerce companies
☑️ Meta must establish & enforce policies that curb harmful content
☑️ E-commerce platforms must enforce their own rules
☑️ Policymakers must demand transparency & accountability from Meta & e-commerce companies
💸 Online hate merch is a lucrative business for platforms, e-commerce, and hateful users.
One Instagram account selling hate merch claims to have made 300,000 orders, generating an estimated $839K.
One Instagram account selling hate merch claims to have made 300,000 orders, generating an estimated $839K.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
💸 Online hate merch is a lucrative business for platforms, e-commerce, and hateful users.
One Instagram account selling hate merch claims to have made 300,000 orders, generating an estimated $839K.
One Instagram account selling hate merch claims to have made 300,000 orders, generating an estimated $839K.
Hateful viral posts on these accounts include:
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hateful viral posts on these accounts include:
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
Earlier this year, Meta rolled back its content moderation policies allowing more harmful content on the platform.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Earlier this year, Meta rolled back its content moderation policies allowing more harmful content on the platform.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
ChatGPT is betraying vulnerable teens by offering them dangerous advice on self-harm & suicide, eating disorders, and substance abuse.
Our findings in @usatoday.com👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
Our findings in @usatoday.com👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
ChatGPT is betraying vulnerable teens by offering them dangerous advice on self-harm & suicide, eating disorders, and substance abuse.
Our findings in @usatoday.com👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
Our findings in @usatoday.com👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
Hateful viral posts on these accounts include:
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hateful viral posts on these accounts include:
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
❌ Describing Jewish people as the “root of all problems”
❌ Calling for black people to go “back to the field”
❌ Racist references about the death of George Floyd
These posts were allowed, despite clearly violating Meta’s own hate speech policies.
Earlier this year, Meta rolled back its content moderation policies allowing more harmful content on the platform.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Earlier this year, Meta rolled back its content moderation policies allowing more harmful content on the platform.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
❌ In the first 6 months after these changes, the viewership of 6 of the 11 hateful accounts rose from 220 million to 826 million users.
Teenagers are turning to ChatGPT for advice.
But CCDH's new research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our research on BBC 👇
But CCDH's new research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our research on BBC 👇
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Teenagers are turning to ChatGPT for advice.
But CCDH's new research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our research on BBC 👇
But CCDH's new research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our research on BBC 👇
Social media & AI giants aren't harmless toys. They keep kids addicted to their platforms while pushing harmful content to their feeds – at the expense of their wellbeing & mental health.
This #WorldChildrensDay, help CCDH build a safer internet for our kids. Donate today ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
This #WorldChildrensDay, help CCDH build a safer internet for our kids. Donate today ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Social media & AI giants aren't harmless toys. They keep kids addicted to their platforms while pushing harmful content to their feeds – at the expense of their wellbeing & mental health.
This #WorldChildrensDay, help CCDH build a safer internet for our kids. Donate today ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
This #WorldChildrensDay, help CCDH build a safer internet for our kids. Donate today ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4r9U0pf
@durbin.senate.gov (D-IL) joined our recent webinar with @parentstogether.bsky.social and @heatinitiative.bsky.social on the harms of AI chatbots for kids & the need for federal legislation.
He discussed the AI LEAD Act which he is a lead co-sponsor of with Senator Hawley (R-MO).
Watch ⤵️
He discussed the AI LEAD Act which he is a lead co-sponsor of with Senator Hawley (R-MO).
Watch ⤵️
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@durbin.senate.gov (D-IL) joined our recent webinar with @parentstogether.bsky.social and @heatinitiative.bsky.social on the harms of AI chatbots for kids & the need for federal legislation.
He discussed the AI LEAD Act which he is a lead co-sponsor of with Senator Hawley (R-MO).
Watch ⤵️
He discussed the AI LEAD Act which he is a lead co-sponsor of with Senator Hawley (R-MO).
Watch ⤵️
🧑🍳 A new cooking tutorial? Nope, this is an urgent message from comedian Rasheda Crockett.
Watch our new video to hear from Rasheda and learn everything you need to know about new climate denial 🌎 ⬇️
#COP30
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGu...
Watch our new video to hear from Rasheda and learn everything you need to know about new climate denial 🌎 ⬇️
#COP30
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGu...
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🧑🍳 A new cooking tutorial? Nope, this is an urgent message from comedian Rasheda Crockett.
Watch our new video to hear from Rasheda and learn everything you need to know about new climate denial 🌎 ⬇️
#COP30
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGu...
Watch our new video to hear from Rasheda and learn everything you need to know about new climate denial 🌎 ⬇️
#COP30
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGu...
Teenagers are turning to ChatGPT for advice.
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our findings in @usatoday.com 👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our findings in @usatoday.com 👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Teenagers are turning to ChatGPT for advice.
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our findings in @usatoday.com 👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Our findings in @usatoday.com 👇
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/nletter/the-right-track/2025/11/13/the-right-track-ai-chatgpt-copilot/87239429007/
Climate disinformation is delaying responses to extreme weather events & climate solutions
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Climate disinformation is delaying responses to extreme weather events & climate solutions
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
👀 WATCH NOW: Our CEO, @imranahmed.bsky.social on the harms AI chatbots are causing to children in our webinar “Protecting Families in the AI Era” with @parentstogether.bsky.social Foundation & @heatinitiative.bsky.social, & special guest @durbin.senate.gov ⤵️
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
👀 WATCH NOW: Our CEO, @imranahmed.bsky.social on the harms AI chatbots are causing to children in our webinar “Protecting Families in the AI Era” with @parentstogether.bsky.social Foundation & @heatinitiative.bsky.social, & special guest @durbin.senate.gov ⤵️
The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposals threaten to quietly dismantle Europe’s strongest digital rights protections like the AI Act & DSA.
That's why we joined 127 organisations in signing an open letter led by EDRi urging the EU to halt this agenda.
Join us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/44cGJ5g
That's why we joined 127 organisations in signing an open letter led by EDRi urging the EU to halt this agenda.
Join us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/44cGJ5g
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposals threaten to quietly dismantle Europe’s strongest digital rights protections like the AI Act & DSA.
That's why we joined 127 organisations in signing an open letter led by EDRi urging the EU to halt this agenda.
Join us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/44cGJ5g
That's why we joined 127 organisations in signing an open letter led by EDRi urging the EU to halt this agenda.
Join us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/44cGJ5g
CCDH & @samaritans.bsky.social organized a drop-in session for MPs in the UK Parliament to urge them to make AI platforms safer.
We spoke about our research & urged them to clearly bring chatbots into scope of the Online Safety Act.
Thanks to everyone who attended our session!
We spoke about our research & urged them to clearly bring chatbots into scope of the Online Safety Act.
Thanks to everyone who attended our session!
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
CCDH & @samaritans.bsky.social organized a drop-in session for MPs in the UK Parliament to urge them to make AI platforms safer.
We spoke about our research & urged them to clearly bring chatbots into scope of the Online Safety Act.
Thanks to everyone who attended our session!
We spoke about our research & urged them to clearly bring chatbots into scope of the Online Safety Act.
Thanks to everyone who attended our session!
Climate disinformation is delaying responses to extreme weather events & climate solutions
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Climate disinformation is delaying responses to extreme weather events & climate solutions
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
🚨OpenAI’s new “safer” version of ChatGPT actually allows more harm.
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🚨OpenAI’s new “safer” version of ChatGPT actually allows more harm.
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
"In 2025, most climate denial is what we dubbed The New Denial
➡️ Undermining solutions by casting shade on their cost or effectiveness
➡️ Attacking climate science & scientists
➡️ And claiming climate change is actually a positive thing"
@imranahmed.bsky.social at this year's #LondonClimateActionWeek
➡️ Undermining solutions by casting shade on their cost or effectiveness
➡️ Attacking climate science & scientists
➡️ And claiming climate change is actually a positive thing"
@imranahmed.bsky.social at this year's #LondonClimateActionWeek
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"In 2025, most climate denial is what we dubbed The New Denial
➡️ Undermining solutions by casting shade on their cost or effectiveness
➡️ Attacking climate science & scientists
➡️ And claiming climate change is actually a positive thing"
@imranahmed.bsky.social at this year's #LondonClimateActionWeek
➡️ Undermining solutions by casting shade on their cost or effectiveness
➡️ Attacking climate science & scientists
➡️ And claiming climate change is actually a positive thing"
@imranahmed.bsky.social at this year's #LondonClimateActionWeek
Worried about how AI might be harming your kids?
We are too. Join CCDH, @heatinitiative.bsky.social and @parentstogether.bsky.social for our webinar: “Families in the AI ERA: How Generative AI Harms Kids and Why Policy Must Catch Up”.
Register here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/43O8ktp
We are too. Join CCDH, @heatinitiative.bsky.social and @parentstogether.bsky.social for our webinar: “Families in the AI ERA: How Generative AI Harms Kids and Why Policy Must Catch Up”.
Register here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/43O8ktp
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Worried about how AI might be harming your kids?
We are too. Join CCDH, @heatinitiative.bsky.social and @parentstogether.bsky.social for our webinar: “Families in the AI ERA: How Generative AI Harms Kids and Why Policy Must Catch Up”.
Register here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/43O8ktp
We are too. Join CCDH, @heatinitiative.bsky.social and @parentstogether.bsky.social for our webinar: “Families in the AI ERA: How Generative AI Harms Kids and Why Policy Must Catch Up”.
Register here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/43O8ktp
We've shown that social media can be addictive by design- trapping users in a toxic cycle of hate & lies that can negatively impact them.
That’s why we support the EU’s Digital Fairness Act which aims to address issues around addictive design & make the online world safer ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3WGXNMQ
That’s why we support the EU’s Digital Fairness Act which aims to address issues around addictive design & make the online world safer ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3WGXNMQ
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We've shown that social media can be addictive by design- trapping users in a toxic cycle of hate & lies that can negatively impact them.
That’s why we support the EU’s Digital Fairness Act which aims to address issues around addictive design & make the online world safer ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3WGXNMQ
That’s why we support the EU’s Digital Fairness Act which aims to address issues around addictive design & make the online world safer ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3WGXNMQ
🚨Our CEO, Imran Ahmed gave testimony to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on rising antisemitism on social media.
Social media companies should stop enabling and profiting from anti-Jewish hate on their platforms.
Watch 👇
Social media companies should stop enabling and profiting from anti-Jewish hate on their platforms.
Watch 👇
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🚨Our CEO, Imran Ahmed gave testimony to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on rising antisemitism on social media.
Social media companies should stop enabling and profiting from anti-Jewish hate on their platforms.
Watch 👇
Social media companies should stop enabling and profiting from anti-Jewish hate on their platforms.
Watch 👇